Get your daily walking
exercise in a safe environment, and perform a valuable service at the
same time! Way Finders are volunteers who guide and escort patients,
families, and other visitors to various areas within the medical center
campus.

Contact Liz or Renee in Volunteer and Senior Resources at 818-409-8057
to schedule an interview and orientation. (posted Nov. 2002)

CWIRE is building a HUGE compendium of photos, artwork, and memorabilia
for all the communities represented on CWIRE.

CWIRE's library of memories is going to be:

Fun!
Interactive!
Educational!
Edifying!
Fascinating!

...And
we're going to need your help to do it all!

We are
looking for student interns, families, teachers, journalists, alumni organizations,
senior living facilities, hospitals, hobbyists, local family-owned businesses,
Realtors, and local businesses of all kinds to help us gather and post
images.

A
potential fundraiser

CWIRE receives funding
from affiliate advertising programs. Your participation and usage of
the site -- and promotion of the photo albums by word of mouth and by
links from your blog or your emails
-- will help to increase traffic to CWIRE and will create sustaining
revenue.

What
kinds of images?

We're
looking for all kinds of images that portray the people, places, and events
in our local communities: photos,
portraits, momentos, and nostalgia -- from contemporary to ancient,
and everything inbetween!

Family
photos, commercial photos, ticket stubs, maps, programs from musical performances
or shows and ceremonies, advertisements, hand-written notes... all of
these create a visual museum of memories which are related to a specific
time in history in our little corner of the world.

'Sounds
like chaos! How will we find anything?

Volunteers
will help to "tag" (index, label) the images based on input
from you, our readers.

Volunteers
will be able to sit down to an Internet terminal (i.e. at home, at school,
at a local public library, or on the other
side of the world) and edit/update index information to the images.
This will be a great project for student volunteers!

As the
library of images grows, we hope that professional indexers and museum
curators will come along and help to refine the categories and image descriptions,
and perhaps re-publish the most significant images at some point (with
your permission, of course).

How
do the images get onto CWIRE?

To save
money, the photos will not be posted cwire.com, but at various other websites.
First post your photos online, then contact
CWIRE. CWIRE will link the various albums together.

Student
volunteers can gather photos from books, magazines, and newspapers and
ask for permission to post them. The process of researching, scanning,
and categorizing photos will be a valuable community service.

Is
CWIRE buying old photos? Who owns the images?

No,
the images still belong to the people who post them. You do not give-up
ownership of your scanned images by posting them online and allowing others
to see them. In fact, if you can photograph or scan them yourself, you
can share them without ever letting go of the originals. CWIRE promises
to never use your images or give them to someone else without your expressed
permission. If you would like to donate your photos/collections
to a charity, we suggest that you contact one of the many historical
societies, libraries,
schools, or museums
in your community.

CWIRE
is particularly interested in your family photos from various periods
of history, such as those seen in the following:

The City of Glendale
will celebrate its 100th birthday in the year 2006. In preparation
for the centennial birthday celebration, CWIRE.COM
and other sponsors are creating
a "living pictorial history" of Glendale from the turn of the 20th
century to today.

Who
decides which photos to include in the scrapbook? Who's in control?

The
Project Sponsors decide what to call their scrapbook,
and which images they will include or disallow. The sponsors are ultimately
responsible for the content, the accuracy, and the message of their scrapbook.
Project sponsors create their own online photo albums and submit them
to CWIRE for review: where authorized reviewers identify photos and link
to them from CWIRE's album, or to reject them.

Why
should I share family photos with the world? Who cares?

Your
old slides and family-vacation photos may be very familiar to you -- perhaps
even boring. But chances are good that some other people will really enjoy
them. And they may be extremely entertaining or precious to others! For
example, you might post photos of yourself with friends and neighbors
with whom you've lost contact. Perhaps they've never seen those photos
before. They (or their friends/families) might appreciate being able to
look at "new" pictures of them after all these years.

Or perhaps
you have photos of people whom *you do not know*. Perhaps they came from
the estate of a deceased relative. If you post the photos online, and
give your best guess about the identity of the people, the locations,
and the time period, you might find that there are people in your town
who can identify the photos for you. But chances are slim that you'll
ever find them if you don't post the photos!

Give
a gift to posterity

A
community scrapbook is both educational and entertaining. It gives everyone
a chance to contribute something fun or particularly meaningful from their
own lives as a gift to others. It gives each of us a chance to narrate
our own versions of history and major events which have impacted
our lives, to give a perspective on events and images that no one else
can give. It creates a project in which local wisdom can be preserved
and transferred from one generation to the next, and myths can be discovered
and explained. And it gives our neighbors, our children, and future generations
an opportunity to learn from our history, to pause and reflect, and to
appreciate precious images which were previously hidden to the world,
images which might otherwise be destroyed.

Community
scrapbooks are educational

By
posting and identifying a "community scrapbook" of photos and memories,
we are creating an in-depth look at our towns, our cultures, our ways-of-life,
and our changing society.

For
example, a string of photos of the same street over many decades reveals
the steady pace of progress, community growth/decline, and revitalization.
Children will be amazed at the similarities and differences between people
living in the early 1900's and people today!

How
to create a new community scrapbook

If
you would like to create a "community scrapbook" or a personal "family
photo album" on CWIRE, simply email your inquiry to the
Photo Editor. Share pictures of your forefathers, your family traditions,
holidays and community events, and pictures/artwork which portrays life
in your town (then and now). Write a brief description of each one to
make them more informative/interesting to others. Or, get creative and
tell a little story or memory from each photo.

If you
represent a business, posting photos is like posting a free advertisement.
Anyone can do it -- up to 10 images for free!

However,
if you would like prominent placement of your company logo and/or photos
in a particular scrapbook, or if you would like to place banner advertising
in a particular scrapbook, please consider one of the following levels
of sponsorship:

(Note:
Nonprofit organizations may contribute photos and publicity instead of
cash.) Please contact Robert
Marston to schedule a time to discuss a scrapbook project and underwriting/sponsorship
opportunities. We appreciate your support!